The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-11-17

ing men, Hercules, you have arrived at the
crossway. Which way VIII you decides For
If you decide for the latter, then do not delsy
q moment; then, people, to arms! This must
blood has fertflized the road TO progress, lib
erty and humanity, and to strive and become
Neebe and other notables of the I.
A. A. took horses, and in person scat
tered the circular broadcast, not failing
to leave copies with the rank and file of
the International EARNED sections y
gathering at Greif's hall, 81 West Lake
street. That the circular gave the Inn
pulse to the action of the armed sec
tions at this Monday night meeting,
and inspired the adoption Of
THE PLAN OF BOMB-THROWnSG
agreed upon, is apparent from the fact
that its contents were first fully dis
cussed. Then the complete detailed
plan of the particular method of in
augurating the wholesale murder for
which they originally organized and
formally considered and adopted, the
time for the slaughter being left for
the Arbeiter Zeitung to designate by
publishing the signal word, ''ruhe, y
(peace). This latter feature was the
work of Adolph Fischer, who had COME
ter Zeitung, where he had been assist
ing Spies and Schwab. That Fischer
was carrying out the plans of his SUI
periorS appears more clearly from the
circumstance that it was he who
AdANEUVERED THE ARMED SECTIONS. -
Out of their idea of holding the Hay
market meeting in the morning instead
of at night, as Spies and the other lead
erS had decided.
A darker picture is not to be found
in history than this spectacle of four
score murderous copspiratOrS in the
wretched saloon basement, remorseleSs-
~ plotting the massacre that occurred
not hundred yards distant, before an
other midnight passed. Rudolph
Schnaubelt, the thrower of the Hay
market bomb, was among the eighty or
more assassins who composed this hOr-
rible meeting. Though adjournment
did not come till long after IL it was not
z O'Clock next morning, Tuesday, when
cal armed section,o opened the chest
of dynamite that had lain untouched
in his lodgings since four days before.
Under his expert directions, six of the
men who attended the murder meeting
of the previous night quickly set to
work then and there filing globular
shells with dynamite.
Early as was the hour, Fischer was
also at work getting out the hand bills
NGA11lnS GnO nay D1d1hCJ A4dOO L4OCOluks
The hand bills last words were:
'Workingmen, arm yourselves and ap-
pear in full force!' What Spies,
Schwab and the other leaders were do
ing that day may be partly inferred
from the
BURNING APPEALS FOR RESISTANCE
and calls ''To Arm!n that appeared in
their newspaper organs that evening.
''Ruhe," penned by Spies own hand,
stared out of the Arbeiter Zeitung.
After the papers were off and their
editors had swallowed haSty supper,
it is known that Spies, Parsons,
ruling spirits, mostly members Of the
Self-same EARNED section" that held
the Greif's Hall conclave, went into
close session at the international head
quarters in the Arbeiter Zeitung build
ing where reports by messenger and
telephone were received as the
moments sped.
Lingg's crew of bomb-makers were
still assiduously at work. For some
reason he himself was unable to re-
main with them all the time, and the
evening found him cursing their slow
progress. 1t was some time after 1880
o. m.-the hour mentioned for the
Haymarket meeting to begin-when
Lingg put into a little trunk what
bombs were ready-some fifty or sixty
and started with his burden to the
appointed rendezvous, an anarchists
saloon near by, known as Neff's Hall,
So Clybourn avenue. He was met on
the way by messenger who had come
to hurry him along. The trunk was
left open i'll passage-way Of The sa-
loon, and without more ado men began
dropping in quietly, alone or in couples,
P0CKETING A R0AIR OR TWO
each, and vanishing into the darkness.
This celebrity may have somewhat
Modified Lingg, but his delay was not
the only stumbling-blo of the reds.
Twenty-Five thousand people, the
anarchist leaders estimated, would be
gathered together in the Haymarket
This was not an extravagant expecta-
ton, when 1900 had been so easily
massed near Mccormick But feaI
of further riOting kept pretty much
| everybody at home, except about 2,00O
men, nearly all of them Enthusiastically
anarchists. Undoubted the smallness
of the crowd made the anarchist lead
erS pause. 1.-The social revolution
backed by mob of workmen 25, 00C
strong had changed to a prospective
| fight between anarchists alone on one
side and the police in force on the
other. 1t was evident to the most
a hitch existed somewhere, and ap-
parently the meetings. managers were
all completely at sea.
The great dim-ighted square was a
decidedly uncanny scene with its scat
tered groups of geSticulating, trampiSh.
looking occupants lining the sidewalks
| and pouring in and out of the rickety
surrounding saloons. The Arbeiter lei
tung conference of leaders had been q
prolonged one, and when at last Spies
Parsons, Fielden and the rest reached
the Haymarket square they seemed
BENT ON A WAITING GAME.
1t will probably never be known
whether the evident hesitancy waS
caused by the delay of Linng's confed
crate, a proposed abandonment Of thS
outbreak, or the hope that the pOlicC
would attack and attempt to dispersC
the dangerous-loOking crowd before thu
speaking should begin, thus relieving
the leaders from appearing to incitC
riot.
Finally, an hour and a half late
Spies, Parsons and Fielden addressed
/ the crowd, in the order named, using {
wagon for their rostrum. The first two
/ in comparison with their usual ha
rangues, we're tame as q pair of doves
Gradually the crowd thinned out. NJ
police interfered, and the chance thu
'treds'' had waited months for wa
nearly gone. The meeting would bG
a laughing stock to the public, thu
leaders would be discredited by ever
their own ilk, and
THE RUHE-SIGNAL
would mean not the social revoiu
ton" begun, but the International AS
ISOLATION collapsed.
Fielden was worthy the occasion
He had been in the background on TIT
wagon with Schnaubelt, the boml
thrower, Spies and other directing
minds, who saw plainly that somethinj
must be done, and quickly. There
fore. when his turn came. Fielder
stepped boldly to the front, discardinl
all pretense of mildness. He electri
fed the rabble at once. The crow
swayed excitedly backward and fol
ward in the narrow, shadowy confine
of Desplaines street, into which the
, had come from the open square, an
pressed eagerly closer to the fiickerin
! gas lamp that lighted the speaker
shaggily bearded face and poWerf,
: form. When he tragically urged tt
) wrought-up mob, standing in plai
view of a police station, to ''thrott
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